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Eh, that setup can start to smell bad quickly. Let's go through some options: 1) MC is interested in Love Interest, but LI ends up dating 3rd Party for a while instead. During a future arc, LI and 3rd break up, and sometime after that LI and MC get together. -To make this work, MC needs to stop...

That reminds me: a lot of the surprise (to the MC) gender benders don't ever seem to deal with the whole getting-a-period thing. For an average guy with no preparatory interest in transitioning, that could be traumatic in itself. And if they are unlucky, their first bought of PMs might leave...

I'm interleaving them, but the revised chapters change a few things so I am not publically replacing them until V1 is done. I have a large backlog and can slip a little, especially as my top tier Patreons are getting early access to the revised chapters, so that fills in a little bit if I am...

So, actual good-guy heroic not arrogant 'hero'. :) I'm on the same page. Give me someone who is legitimately trying to do the right thing. How they do it, how well they do it, whether they complain while doing it, etc., all of that can vary a lot. Just, you know, try to be a decent person...

An antagonist is a person with goals opposed to the protagonist's goals. The protagonist is the story's PoV character. This is not a value judgment, it is simply their roles in the story. There are stories where both the protagonist and the antagonist can be considered heroic, but they have...

What? No, I very, very rarely sympathize with a villain, and most of the time when a villain is written well enough to get some sympathy from me, my reaction is "I get your point I understand why you were upset enough to lash out, but that is entirely the wrong way." Villains are, generally...

I get it, I am annoyed by that sort of gender-flipping. I especially dislike forced gender swapping, where it just happens to the MC. That feels incredibly violating and traumatizing. Do Not Want. Voluntary transition *can* make sense, but A) that should be an important aspect of the story...

Mmm, if more creative versions of Living Dungeon stories fit the bill, you might like mine. There's floor theming, layout, etc. But I don't delve (heh) too far into the minutia of it, because magic does a lot of the work. The cores still have to focus on it, it's not automated. They can just do...

I do things like play OSP's Trope Talks playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDb22nlVXGgcljcdyDk80bBDXGyeZjZ5e) while playing games or writing, and occasionally pausing to take notes on how the trope she is covering might be relevant to be story and what I might be doing good or bad...

It's some form of misogyny, that much is clear. The exact reasoning behind it? I don't know, I don't get it. I mean, there is some eroticism in a slightly contested sex scene, but we're talking more about two people competing to see who is on top. Or maybe a scenario where she wants to make...

I have three primary PoVs with occasional dips into secondary PoVs. I interleave them chronologically, in large part because it is one story and the characters are often together. I try not to retread time periods, or if I do so, do it in consecutive chapters to get it over with quickly.

My username is from an old D&D character I enjoyed. I started using it in 1994/5 for my AOL account. Said character has evolved over years and campaigns, and is now the primary deity for my setting for my serial. My Avatar is a simple AI-generated 'Zed', because I wanted a fancy Z. :)

If you can write friends, you can write romance. Write two characters who can readily vibe as best buddies and give them appropriate genders and appearances to add sexual tension based on their preferences. Add in a desire to have a relationship rather than be "Friends With Benefits".

Eh, the closest I have is a Thruple (FMF). Whether the 'harem' is more Mordecai's or Kazue's is up for debate, at least according to some of my readers, even if he technically kicked things off down this road. That's for my own story BTW, "No Need For A Core?" (in my signature). I don't wind...

I have been writing my current story for just shy of two years, and I have not burned out on the story itself. I'm going to be sad when I reach its finale, but I thankfully set out to keep the stakes small. My ideas for this setting have multiplied, and we will at least get to revisit these...

So, I have discovered that I enjoy having the relationship be happy and committed early in the story, though this does make it "fantasy with romance" not "fantasy romance", but I am good with that. I discovered that I also like a 3-person dynamic with the right setup. Both of these...

Oh, yeah, sorry, I didn't realize it was fanfic. >.< But the rest stands. :)

True, but I couldn't find a more general version. I scanned the whole list of rejection tropes, and this was the only one that fit the format. Even without the romance angle, I still think it works better if it is indirect. Company has 1,000 applicants desperate to get the job, and it shows...

STEADY POSTING SCHEDULE! Also, this is how you build up backlog before your next burn out or lull happens. *write* just as much, but keep your posting rate the same. I am almost back to a backlog of 30 chapters. Also, the chapters are available on Patreon, and the top tier gets them 'live'...

I think this is the best match on TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou There are some examples that are decent, but this one is easy to screw up. I think the direct ones (A tries to seduce B, is rejected, and thus falls in love with B) are...